I foolishly wasted time last week following a trail of links to a rather ridiculous right-wing website. There was a long, gleeful post about the outing of Joe Wilson as a liar, coward, and all around jackass. The way it was written, it seemed really important, but it wasn’t really clear why. In the comments section, I proposed the […]
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The grocery store I frequent most often has an ad for the egregious “Fox and Friends” on the mechanical cart. Apparently because it’s not quite disingenuous enough, they abjure the
David Adesnik makes an observation about NYT campaign coverage. I think we can safely call it an understatement: The negative thrust of campaign journalism has begun to engulf the Democratic candidat
Responding to libertarian blogger Abiola Lapite, Brad DeLong muses on global warming…. I think that, for most global-warming fearers, it is naivete that makes them advocate an immediate program to attempt to freeze global CO2 concentrations as close to current levels as possible. I can’t entirely endorse this statement, but I can recognize a certain fairness to […]
You read the blogs enough and you can get the sense that a good portion of libertarians are thoughtful and sensible (if myopic). This may well be true, but it’s really not close to the whole sto
Jesse Taylor addresses what is is sure to be an issue that’ll be coming up from now through Nov. 2–how the evil trial lawyers are driving up the cost of health care with their outrageous
Roger Ailes recently pointed out an embarrassingly stupid op-ed piece by Wan Julliams, in which he complained about how the vacuous lip service with no changes in policy whatsoever offered by George Bush hasn’t won him more votes. Anyway, he moved things up another notch today. Here’s Wan on poor Bush snubbing those meanies at […]
Brad DeLong has a nice post comparing Ehrenreich in 2000 and 2004. I’m always amused to be reminded some classic Naderite tropes, such as the fact that a conservative justice happened to vote to
One Steven Zeitchick takes to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to write what might be the stupidest defense of Fox News ever: Yet to call these films propaganda is also to misunderstand them. Th
I don’t know much about British politics, but I have to wonder: If there were an election in the U.K. tomorrow, how many seats would Labour lose to the Lib Dems? I imagine they’d still have a plurality, but man. The bi-election results were not good, and dissent is rumbling. In Leicester South, Parmjit Singh Gill […]
A question for those who still cling, against all evidence and reason to the myth of the liberal media: Why is it that Billy Carter and Roger Clinton were covered well enough to become household names
Today he treats us to a meandering, obvious article about the vacuity of all the ‘values’ discourse eminating from the Kerry-Edwards campaign. He notes with with some sadness that that a